Spring Forward
Release Date:
03/07/2018
Spring Forward A Message from the President of Philanthropy New York , Ronna Brown Dear Colleagues: Never mind the current ... we turn our clocks forward bringing us one step closer to spring and...
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22
Sep
2022
How Funders Can Best Support "Non-Traditional" College Students
Thursday, September 22, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Across New York State, and across the country, higher educational ... school part-time; working full-time; and/or struggling to afford tuition and basic needs, are the core constituency ... many...
29
Jan
2025
Using Philanthropic Assets beyond Grantmaking: Shareholder Engagement as a Tool to Drive Change
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 5:30pm
... which has used shareholder engagement to secure the first community benefits agreement in the history of the US South, ... , Nathan Cummings Foundation In Collaboration with New York...
Nathan Cummings Foundation Names Artealia Gilliard as its First Director of Communications
Release Date:
03/23/2017
... the Foundation and the work of NCF grantees and Fellows to advance innovative and visionary solutions to the two most challenging problems of our time – the ... decisions. In Atlanta, she led social justice...
The School That Will Get You a Job
Release Date:
02/13/2014
... the name of one of the first African-American women ever to be granted a U.S. patent, in 1885, for a foldout bed that ... into a modern-day Ikea catalog. It's also the name of a new high school on Chicago...
More Details Emerging About Greer's Ouster from Nathan Cummings Foundation
Release Date:
06/10/2014
... Chronicle of Philanthropy has shed more light on what led to the announcements Tuesday from the Nathan Cummings ... Chronicle reports that Greer, who was hired as CEO in 2011 to give the foundation a more...
D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years
Release Date:
08/27/2015
... more than $31 million from national foundations, according to an analysis by two professors at Michigan State University of grants by the 15 largest philanthropies funding kindergarten ... charter schools or...
A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?
Release Date:
08/28/2015
... commemorate the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Although many people will tout the city’s ... blacks in America and how far the nation still must go to end them. On August 4, we celebrated...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research
Release Date:
09/17/2015
... Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson ... with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk research. The report, U.S...
Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions
Release Date:
01/19/2016
... everywhere will be affected by accelerating disruptions to the world of work—yet people in different economic ... will be impacted in very different ways, according to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking...
Morgan Stanley Renews Commitment of $8 Million to Feeding America
Release Date:
09/23/2016
Morgan Stanley Renews Commitment of $8 Million to Feeding America On September 22, 2016 The Morgan Stanley Foundation announced its renewed commitment to hunger relief through a new $8 million,...
Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It
Release Date:
06/14/2017
... It Few foundations provide most of their annual giving to individuals. The bias of most funders in favor of ... and publicize the results that derive from their project grants . But when it comes to...
Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... of computers, indulging in a world of knowledge that many New Yorkers take for granted. It was a hive of activity, one ...
Teagle Foundation Names Andrew Delbanco Next President
Release Date:
03/22/2018
... this summer after five years leading the foundation, whose grants support liberal education, with a strong emphasis on ... public role in discussions of higher education. He has a new book coming out this fall...
Rita Allen Foundation Announces Its 2018 Class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Release Date:
07/10/2018
... in biomedical science whose research has the potential to lead to groundbreaking new discoveries and advance human health. The selected Scholars will each receive grants of...
MIT Receives $8 Million From Simons Foundation for Quantum Research
Release Date:
06/04/2019
... The Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter will work to classify possible forms of UQM, understand their physical properties, and provide ideas designed to enable new realizations of...
To Get Beyond Two Percent, We Have to Go Beyond Giving
Release Date:
10/08/2013
... Advisors The Huffington Post invited Eric Kessler to contribute to its TED Weekends series, “The Business ... to note that Pallotta’s attack on the habit of measuring nonprofits...
19
May
2015
Economic Inequality and Mobility: Looking at the Evidence to Inform Philanthropy’s Actions
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 -
9:15am to 11:15am
... mobility has stalled since the mid-20th century according to extensive economic and social science research. Over the ... incomes have grown at a slower pace. According to recent studies, wealth disparities...
13
Jan
2016
Local to Global: Efforts to Address the Increasing Prevalence of Teen Girl Suicide
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 -
9:15am to 11:15am
... and the availability and quality of mental healthcare in New York City and throughout different regions of the world. ... - @Sit_lena Carlie Steen, Program Manager, Stonewall Community...
PhilTV: Do Money and Mission Mix? How Foundations Are Using Sustainable Investment to Address Climate Change
Release Date:
05/31/2016
... companies, but in fact leading members of the foundation community are demonstrating a diversity of approaches to the ... they answered the following questions at Philanthropy New ...